Hi & Happy New Year! This Christmas I had a date with Lucy Boston & her Patchwork of the Crosses. Lucy was an english childrens books writer, and se made quilts also, which can now be seen at Hemmingford Grey Manor.

Linda Franz wrote a booklet about Patchwork of the Crosses in 2009, and she wites about piecing teckniques. The block is made in a elongated hexagon shape. You can hand piece or do english Paper Piecing with paper templates. Sue Daley have also made a EPP paper template kit for this block.

I choose to hand piece only 12 blocks, playing with colors and patterns in each block, to get Lucy's feeling of planned scrappiness. The original have lots of blocks- its a big coverlet - and the idea is to use the fabrics in a new way to create secondary patterns, and to play with the stripes or colors placement in each block.